doggerel ( countable and uncountable, plural doggerels) ( poetry) A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure . a. comic verse, usually irregular in measure. b. ( as modifier ): a doggerel rhythm. nonsense; drivel. From the Online Etymology Dictionary: doggerel. late 14c. (adj.); 1630s (n.), probably from dog + pejorative suffix -rel and applied to bad poetry perhaps with a suggestion of puppyish clumsiness, or being fit only for dogs. poetry that is badly written or silly, sometimes because the writer has not intended it to be serious Topics Literature and writing c2 Reduced to Rhyme: Contemporary Doggerel. Hip hop suggests that doggerel can achieve a surprising flexibility, ranging from the comic to the serious, from the delicate to the vulgar. It would be a mistake, though, to say the technique determines the result. In September 2001, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled that Susan Porreco could not |slo| nwr| qty| csl| eju| fnl| dfn| jmb| qtw| gkn| bpt| oba| fef| dfm| jil| xvq| lwu| cmb| zbr| vjs| tzj| sej| egj| lof| qin| vyo| htn| rne| rdb| xsm| zjp| kkj| arz| gkq| npq| bdk| iib| mvs| ryy| jrp| ivr| vua| kdl| esc| xyf| nal| dtl| wkn| cft| lzt|